Moving a virtual machine from VMWare Workstation to VMware ESXi 6.5

 Posted on June 18, 2017  |  5 minutes  |  983 words  |  Stephan Baenisch

In this example a F5 LTM Virtual Edition will be moved from Workstation to ESXi. My first expectation was that moving a VM from Workstation to ESXi works out of the box and is quickly done… So I simply copied an existing VM (the .vmx file and the corresponding vmdk disk images) to the datasore of the ESXi host. Copying the files can be done using the Web UI file browser or by enabling ssh access on the ESXi host and using scp to move the file to the host. [Read More]
esxi  f5  ltm  vmware 

Disable VMWare Workstation time sync

 Posted on July 22, 2016  |  1 minutes  |  36 words  |  Stephan Baenisch

In der VM Konfigurationsdatei (*.vmx) folgende Einträge einfügen:

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.continue = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.restore = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.resume.disk = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.shrink = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.tools.startup = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.tools.enable = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.resume.host = "FALSE"

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virtualization  vmware 

VMWare to Virtual Box conversion with OVF Tool

 Posted on January 5, 2013  |  2 minutes  |  217 words  |  Stephan Baenisch

To transfer a virtual machine from VMWare Workstation 6.5.1 to Oracle Virtual Box 4.2.6 the virtual machine must be converted to the Open Virtualization Format. To do this VMWare offers a tool called OVF Tool. It’s available for download from the VMWare homepage. Converting a virtual machine is quite simple: In my case I used the command without any options. After that is done go to Virtual Box and import it through “Import appliance”. [Read More]
conversion  virtual-box  vmware